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  eme

  noun

  friend.
• -eme
  -eme

  a suffix used principally in linguistics to form nouns with the sense “significant contrastive unit,” at the level of language specified by the stem.

eme

¹ American  

[eem] / im /

noun

Chiefly Scot.

1. friend.

2. uncle.

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-eme ² American  

1. a suffix used principally in linguistics to form nouns with the sense “significant contrastive unit,” at the level of language specified by the stem.

   morpheme; tagmeme.

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-eme British  

suffix

1. linguistics indicating a minimal distinctive unit of a specified type in a language

   morpheme

   phoneme

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Etymology

Origin of eme¹

before 1000; Middle English eem ( e ), Old English ēam; cognate with Dutch oom, German (arch.) Ohm, Oheim; akin to uncle

Origin of -eme²

Extracted from phoneme

Example Sentences

The word "eme" signifies uncle, and the saying—its claims as a proverb are small enough—means that a person may have many relations but very few friends among them.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

The Earl of Menteith, thou art my eme, The forward I give to thee; The Earl of Huntley cawte and keen, He shall with thee be.

From The Book of Old English Ballads by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

She retorted, "O my son, well I wot thou haddest an uncle, but he is now dead nor am I ware that thou hast other eme."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Alas then, said she unto her daughter, La Beale Isoud, this is the same traitor knight that slew my brother, thine eme.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Remember St. Paul's words: he dunamis en astheneia teleitai. edista oun mallon kauchesomai en tais astheneiais, hina episkenose ep eme he dunamis tou Christou; hotan gar artheno, tote dunatos eimi.

From Letters to His Friends by Robinson, Forbes